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Communications.
FOR THE FREK 111 ESS.
'Micodemus answered and said unto him, how can
these things be?" Consistency! thou art a jewel.
Mr. Editor: The perusal of a prolix
article in your paper of the 25th tilt,
headed the North Carolina Whim's Mo
morial and Remonstrance to the honora
ble the (federal Assembly of the Stale of
'"North Carolina, has given rise to a series
of reflections, which, notwithstanding a
different course might be dictated by pru
dence. I cannot refrain from giving to the
public. The generous reader will excuse
me, if in fixing upon the writer of that
article, I should identify him with the au
thor of a pamphlet published sometime
since, entitled "A Basket of Fragments
for the Children." Taking the fact for
granted then, that they are both the oil
spring of the same mind, I assert without
hesitation, that there is a palpable incon
the "Remonstrance," seems to me to be
quite logical and therefore the charge of
inconsistency is fully substantiated.
These remarks have been dictated by no
unfriendly feelings, but solely with "the
hope of eliciting from the individual un
der review an explanation of his doc
trines. Should they answer the desired
effect, the purposes of the writer will
have been served. Tyro.
'' Internal Improvement Meeting. A
meeting of the citizens of Martin county
was held at VVilliamston on the 15th ult.
at which Dr. Simmons J. Baker presid
ed, and Arthur S. Cotton and Asa Biggs
acted as Secretaries. Col. Joseph J.
William, Dr. James B. Slade, Thomas
W. Watts, Lewis A. Powell and Asa
Biggs were appointed a committee to
draft resolutions, for the consideration of
the meeting. Col. Williams, from said
committer, reported the following, which
were unanimously adopted:
Wiikuua.s by a Resolution adopted by
the Internal Improvement Convention
held at Raleigh on the fourth of July
last, it was recommended to the several
counties in the Stale to send Delegates
to a meeting to be held in the same place
on the fourth Monday in November next
on the same subject.
litsolcctl, That this meeting heartily
concur in the recommendation and re
joice to pereeiv a spirit of enter
prise beginning to manifest itself a-
mong our citizens, which with proper
encouragement and judicious direction
promises to develop the resources of the
i .
sistency in the writing and conduct ot
this indiv idual, and shall now proceed to State and advance her to that rank umon
make ;ood the assertion. It, as is main- her sisinr Sr:tps whirdi k!h i i.ntitb.d
She had with her a trunk containing con
siderable clothing, and in it was found a
quantity of medicine which she said was
given her by a physician in Buffalo, with
directions for its use to produce un abor
tion, and she stated that she hud taken
five doses of it. The attending physi
cian upon examining it found it to be
rank poison, and gave it as his opinion
that one dose of it was sufficient to cause
death. The only opinion that can be
gathered from the whole of the circum
stances is, that she was betrayed and
made the victim of some monster in hu
man shape. She was decently buried,
and her effects, together with a sum of
money which she had with her, are in
I lie care of M r. John U. Coney, subject
to the request of legal claimants.
the presence of mind to raise a window
and sound an alarm. They were imme
diately carried to a neighboring house.
where assisted by medical aid they reco
vered in a few days.
Despair. The New Orleans Bee of
the 24th ult. mentions that a lady of ihat
ity, who had lost her husband a few
days previously, attempted in a fit of des-
jair, to destroy heielf and two of her
children, by precipitating them inU) a
well, and then throwing herself in after
them. Thev were taken out soon after.
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but the children were both dead and 1 i I tie
lopes remained of the recovery of the
mother from the injuries sustained by
the fatal act.
tained in that pamphlet, the fate of man is
unalterably fixed by the foreknowledge
and predestination of Cod, and no efibrt
to hold.
Resolved, further. That the Chairman,
Dr. James B. Slade, D. W. Bagley, Asa
of his can possibly affect his condition, 1 j Biggs, Samuel S. Shepard, Col. James
ask for what purpose does the writer in
the very same article in which this doc
trine is supported, call upon his readers
to desert their wicked way and seek God
before it is too late? Why make the
same appeal from the pulpit Why de
vote so much of his time to the spiritual
benefit of mankind, when according to
his own "doxy," no good can possibly re
sult therefrom to his fellow man. If
man's destiny be fixed, I think it a fair
inference that that of nations is also;!
where then is the propriety of memorial
izing the Legislature'against the incorpo
ration of Theological Seminaries, even
admitting the fact that harm could result
therefrom. For the sake of illustration,
let us suppose, that the Almighty in the
plenitude of his wisdom and power, be
fore time was, foreknew that a govern
ment called the United States of America
would spring into existence in the 17th
century, that tha people thereof would be
a wicked people, that they would violate
his commandments and set him and his
counsels at defiance, and had decreed, as
a means of punishment, that they should
bo the willing instruments of exalting a
proud and pompous priesthood, who
should lord it over them and grind them
to the very dust or on the contrary, let
us suppose, He foreknew that the people
of the United States would be a wise and
virtuous people and had decreed, as a
means of rewarding them, that their gov
ernment should excel every other which
existed prior to or eotemporarv with it,
both in its duration and the happiness of
its citizens I ask of what avail can the
efforts of man be to avert either fatet If
the former destiny be decreed us, who
can say, but that the efforts now being
made by the clergy are the means which
(jod has devised to consummate his pur
pose; if the latter, let us rest quiescent
under our own "vines and fig trees;" for
with God as our pilot, the clergy and his
satanic majesty muy combine to destroy
us, yet the ship of state will eventually
reach the destined haven. J his reason
ing when compared with that of the wri
ter of the "Basket of Fragments" and
11. Smith, Col. J oseph J. Williams and
Lawrence Cherry, Esq. be Delegates to
represent the county of Martin in the
proposed meeting lobe held on the fourth
Monday in November next.
Windsor Herald. ,
lJublic Debt. A notice from the Trea
sury Department will be seen in another
column of our paper this morning, for the
payment of another large portion of the
public debt, on the first of May next, and
another of a readiness to meet the pay
ment of any portion of it which may be
desired by the holders of the stock, pre
vious to that time. Thus the balance of
the debt is melting away before the rays
of the brilliant measures which have
been pursued by the present administra
tion. Baltimore Rep.
Mysterious and melanchohf circum
stance. the brecdonia N. V. Censor
says: Week before last a well dressed
female, apparently between 25 and 30
years of age, landed at Dunkirk, and on
Friday came to this village. She stop
ped at the small stage house, where she
remained over night and till the after
noon of the next day she appeared me
lancholy said little or nothing to any
one, and called for nothing to eat.
When she left, she said she wanted to go
to Coney's tavern, which is eight miles
west of this place, where she arrived
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Here
also she appeared depressed in mind and
retired early to bed. The next morning
it was ascertained that she was quite ill,
and a physician was sent for, though
against her wish. The physician upon
ascertaining her situation informed her
that she could live but a short time, and
she died about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
All the information she gave of herself
was that her name was Melinda Smith
that she had a husband and three chil
dren living at Cleaveland,Ohio, to whom
she was returning, having been on a visit
to her husband's relatives at Rutland,
Vt. This statement from attendant cir
cumstunces, is thought not to be correct.
Trial for. Murder. The trial of Fran
ces Leach, charged with the murder of
Sally Burdick, in February lasi, at Cov
entry, lUioue Island, bv attempting to
procure an abortion with instruments,
which attempt caused her death, was
brought to a close in the Supreme Court,
sitting at Fast Greenwich, on the 20ih
ult. after being protracted to the unusual
length often days; the longest time ever
occupied in that Slate by a criminal tri
al, excepting in that of Avery, which last
ed twentv-eiizht davs. A Great mass of
circumstantial evidence was produced,
and one witness to the acknowledgment
of the prisoner herself. The defence
was, that the death was not sufficiently
proved to have resulted from the wounds,
seven in number; that the prisoner was
not conclusively shown to have inflicted
them; and that the offence, if proved, did
not amount to murder by the Common
Law of that State, which was, in many
particulars besides those excepted by
statute, different from the Common Law
of England. The jury, after being out
all night, returned a verOict at ten o'clock
on Sunday morning, of voluntary man
slaughter. The sentence was two years'
iniorisoninent. aud 1000 dollars hue.
The Chief Justice, in pronouncing it, ex
pressed his regret that the more guilty
person should escape, while the least so
had to suffer; and David Cubbs, included
in the indictment as an accessary before
the fact, for instigating, procuring, am
aiding in the oflence, was discharged
there being no accessaries before the fact
to manslaughter.
OCT After the last day's race at New
York, a few days since, which was won
by a mare called Alice Gray, her owners
refused an ofler of S000 lor iier. 1 he
famous horse Sir Charles lately died in
Virginia. The day before he was taken
ill, his owners would not have taken
$12,000 for him.
Crim. Con. A case of crim. con.
was recently tried at Troy, N. Y. in
which Naihnn Smilh was plaintiff and
John Martin defendant. The r.as- was
of an aggravated nature, ami the jury
gave a verdict of 3000. MrJUmtiu has
a wife and'three children.
ttTFrom an account published in the
New York Commercial Advertiser, it is
a fair inference that the late terrible ex
plosion of the steamboat New England,
)y which so many lives were lost, was
the result of a race between that boat and
the. boats for Providence and Norwich,
which started at the same time. An eye
witness, a' passenger on board, residing
in Northampton, has published a state
ment in which he says expressly hat
heavy bets were pending on the relative
speed of the boats and the time of tin ir
arrival; thatihey raced for several hours,
and the New England was put up to a
speed of seventeen miles an hour through
Long Uland Sound, without the aid of
wind or tide. This, together with the
neglect formerly stated, in blowing nflf
the steam, when a stoppage was made to
land passengers, is sufficient to explain
the awful explosion aud all its distress
ing circumstances.
A vigilant Watchman. On the night
of the 19th ult. as one of the watchmen
in New York was taking a quiet nap on
his post, some arch rogue extracted from
his vest pocket a gold patent lever watch
of the value of $150.
CAt a late Court in Belmont county,
Ohio, Thomas Job, aged about 5G years,
was tried and convicted of an attempt to
csmmita rape on his step daughter, aged
10 years, and sentenced to the Peniten
tiary for seven years.
Danger from Gas. A recent case of
the danger to life incurred by burning
charcoal in a close room, is mentioned in
the last Huron (Ohio) Reflector, as oc
curring in Norwalk. A bereaved family
and six neighbors were together in a
small room in which lay the corpse of
one of the family some sitting up and
others lying on beds. The room was
warmed by a pot of burning charcoal.
Suddenly all in the room were affected
by the gas from the charcoal, which al
most produced suffocation. Several fell
to the floor, while one of the number had
Slander. A case of slander was re
cently tried at Hartford, Conn, in which
a Mr. Livingston and wife were defend
ants and Miss Ruth Miller plaintiff. The
latter is a young lady of unsuspected vir
tue, and the slanderous words were spo
ken by the wife of the defendant at dif
ferent, times, addressed to young ladies,
strangers to the plaintiff', and reflecting in
vague and indirect expressions, cruelly
upon the plaintiff's character. The de
fendant denied the speaking of the
words, and also their actionable charac
ter. But the jury taught the good lady,
that persons were not to escape responsi
bility for the waywardness of their unru
ly members, by a resort to artful modes,
of expression. Verdict for plaintiff,
.$200. I he sum is much too small, wo
think. The-penalty in cases of this kiuc
should be very severe.
More Murders. A letter to the Edi
tors of the Kentucky Reporter, dated
Winchester, Ky. Oct. 1, says: "This
morning, about 3 o'clock, an unfortunate
rencounter took place before the Curt
House door, between Samuel R Combs
and sons against two of the Bushes,
(sons of Ambrose,) which terminated in
the death of Samuel R. Combs, sen. His
head was nearly separated from his body,
the main artery being entirely separated.
Combs had shot a man named Neilson
the day previous, with a pistol, and was
in custody of the Sheriff, and the Bushes
were summoned as a guard. He died in
about 30 minutes or less, after he had re
ceived the cut."
CTAt Port Gibson, Miss, on the 18th
ult. Jacob Skinner deliberately shot John
Jenning, Esq. Postmaster at that pi ce.
Bayard Thistle, who was 6hot by Swear-
ingen, and Who then shot himself, died a
Cumberland, Md. on the 3d ult.